Burlesque Glamour – The stars are out and the eyes of gargoyles are on you as you make your way to a soirée. Pin your hair up, throw on a purple lace corset dress, thick kohl eye-liner and some daring lip-liner, or think 1930s Murder Mystery with midnight blue dress, pearl necklace, long gloves and seam stockings.

Indie Oxford – Visit

Merton College (Merton Street) Typically gaining the highest marks in Oxford, find some of the hippest geek-chic students here

Christ Church College (Saint Aldate’s) Breathtaking and ostentatious, where Brideshead Revisited’s Sebastian Flyte leads a hedonistic but ultimately miserable life. The Dining Hall is Hogwarts’ in the Harry Potter films

Shelley Memorial – University College (High Street) Dramatic memorial statue for Romantic poet P.B. Shelley who was expelled from Oxford for radical writing and rumoured to have later committed suicide

Indie Oxford – Drink

The Eagle and Child (49 Saint Giles) Pub where C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) and J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) met to discuss their writings

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